Comments on: Too Many Social Networking Sites Out There

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:30:26 +0000

Why do we need ANY of these social networking sites? They’re just for vain people to put up pictures of themselves and keep everyone up to date with a minute by minute account of their boring lives as they think they are so important that others actually care what cereal they plan on having.
What happened to actually getting out there and having a life? meeting new people and catching up with old friends by ringing their ONE phone number/ ONEne email address and arranging to meet up face to face.
I know so many people who spoil a good night out because all they do is take pictures of themselves ”having the night of their lives” (clearly not) or post comments about how amazing their night is, seriously?..people should be making the most of life not wasting it on these sites. They are more bad than good, its just one big popularity contest that causes arguements between friends and partners over trival things.
Theres no mystery anymore, all you have to do these days is go on someones facebook and you know their life story and some..is there any point in even dating them after that, i mean you wont have anything to ask them because you know it all..might aswell cut that stage out all together and have a virtual wedding or something.

In my opinion social networking sites take something away from the bigger picture and society as a whole.

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:58:57 +0000

It’s true. It’s not the sites themselves that are the problem since you can choose what to use and what not to use. It’s the endless troop of no lifes who populate them that are the problem. It’s the same situation with blogs. There are some very fun, interesting and informative blogs out there like this one and I’d like to think mine, but there are a lot more that are so far beyond useless that words to describe their lack of value to the world have not yet been invented.

I’m personally not a member of any of the social networking stuff, mostly because I’ve worked very hard over the last 10 years or so to rid my life of many of the loons I used to know in my school days. Nearly everybody I actually want to talk to I know how to find, and I’ve heard through those people about who has found them on Facebook or the like. Armed with this knowledge, I don’t feel too bad about staying away from it all. Why undo in 10 minutes what I’ve accomplished in 10 years I say.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:53:36 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know. I’m just not into the whole, “What is so and so doing AT THIS VERY MINUTE!?!?!”

And I have to imagine that this whole Twitter thing is going to be corporatized in no time. Once some old school higher up and Disney or ABC realizes that their ESPN sideline reporter is doing something that is essentially a personal thing on their time, they’ll want to control it. Eventually you’ll see these people have their updates become more like advertising and then the whole thing will die out.

I’m very “meh” on the whole Twitter thing.

By: Eddie T.

Eddie T. — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:44:44 +0000

I think twitter.com is a very interesting website, although I don’t have an account there. It’s not really any of those social network sites that are doing something wrong, as all they’re doing is creating great innovative ideas that allow people to stay in touch. It’s the idiots using them that are creating the problem. They take something like a facebook status (which is pretty much all twitter is, only you updated it more often), and turn it into the key point of their day. That’s a bit too much.

However, these social networks can be used much better. For example, I enjoy “following” the twitter accounts of certain “famous” people who know how to use them. I’ll give an example in ESPN’s Lisa Salters, who works the sideline during NBA games. Her twitter account is at http://www.twitter.som/saltersl. She twitters every few minutes during games when she’s free (they had a game a few weeks ago where she was doing it every few minutes because it was a main plug during the game) giving the fans a great inside of what just happened on the floor. She provides a unique take on what goes on during time-outs (she would even go as far as give some details on what coaches said or what words teammates exchanged as they head to the bench) or share a cool fact that you wouldn’t get unless you were at the game (how a fan made the half-court shot during a commercial break). She also knows how to put to use the messaging feature on twitter well, allowing her “followers” (i hate these terms twitter uses!) to suggest questions for her to ask the coaches during the interviews, or players as they walk by. She responds back to her readers who might ask inside stuff.

When she’s not doing an NBA game, she could go days between updates, or maybe once every other day sharing a key NBA fact she’s learned from interviewing or talking with a player. It just provides a great inside that fans often wonder about. We need to see more of this and less of the “I’m hungry,” or “I just left my house to go jog” type of crap!

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:09:33 +0000

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